Degree: BACHELOR
Duration: 4 years (8 semesters)
ECTS: 240
Fields of study: Machine Building, Foundry Engineering Technologies and Machinery, Technological Equipment and Tool Technology, Technological Equipment and Means of Mechanisation and Automation of Technological Processes
Languages of instruction: Russian, English (on request)

DESCRIPTION

The main objective of the programme is to train a bachelor in mechanical engineering, capable of solving foundry production problems at a high professional level, taking into account manufacturability, reliability and safe operation; to develop and implement technological processes aimed at creating competitive mechanical engineering products and based on the application of modern methods and means of design, mathematical, physical and computer modelling.

AIMS

production and technological activity:
•    development of methods and plans for incoming inspection of foundry materials used in the foundry section;
•    supervising incoming inspection of foundry materials used in the foundry section;
•    analysing the results of the incoming inspection of foundry materials used in the foundry section;
•    developing proposals for replacing foundry materials with better quality ones;
•    developing methods for assessing the technological properties of foundry materials used in the foundry section;
•    drawing conclusions on the quality of moulding and core mixtures, auxiliary materials, ceramic suspensions and model compositions used in the foundry section;
•    developing proposals for improving the quality of foundry materials used in the foundry section;
•    identifying the indices of technical level and efficiency of the technologies used in the foundry section;
•    analysing technological solutions in the foundry section, identifying opportunities for technology modernisation, and identifying the most efficient technological solutions;
•    testing for the manufacturability of the casting design of medium complexity.

design activity:
•    analysing variants of the position of a casting of medium complexity in the mould, location of the parting plane, selection of the optimal variant;
•    analysing options for forming external and internal surfaces of a casting of medium complexity, selection of the optimum option, determination of the number and shape of rods;
•    analysing gating system design options for castings of medium complexity, selecting the best option, calculating the gating system;
•    modelling mould filling and solidification of castings of medium complexity in application software packages;
•    adjusting gating system design, casting position in the mould, options for forming external and internal surfaces of the casting of medium complexity, taking into account the results of modelling;
•    developing drawings of mould elements and castings of medium complexity.

organizational and management activity:
•     analysing the technological process of casting production, identifying the requirements for tooling imposed by the technological process of production of a simple casting;
•     identifying the requirements for the simple tooling imposed by the equipment used in the foundry section;
•    analysing materials used for tooling production, selecting materials for simple tooling for the equipment used in the foundry section;
•    developing technical specifications for the design of simple tooling for foundry equipment for the design department of a foundry organisation or a contracting organisation engaged in the development and production of foundry tooling;
•    analysing technological solutions in the foundry section, identifying opportunities for technology modernisation, determining optimal technological solutions;
•    conducting diagnostics of simple equipment in the foundry section and identifying physically obsolete equipment;
•    identifying the economic viability of implementing new equipment and technologies in the foundry section.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On successful completion of the course the student should be able to:
•    analyse the quality of foundry materials and substantiate the choice of the most high-quality and economically viable foundry materials with the required complex of technological properties;
•    develop new technological processes for low and medium complexity castings, taking into account the features of new equipment and foundry technologies;
•    develop design documentation and implement technological maintenance of design documentation for machine-building products of low and medium complexity for pilot and serial (mass) production;
•    execute works on installation, commissioning and testing the equipment of tooling of the foundry section;
•    prepare the foundry section for the implementation of new equipment and technologies.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

The graduate who has successfully mastered the basic professional educational programme of higher education in the study field 15.03.01 Mechanical Engineering is able to carry out professional activity on designing foundry technologies for the production of castings, organisation of their production, quality assurance in foundry production and management of technological processes at machine-building enterprises, design and research institutes and institutions, to hold the positions of engineer, senior engineer, leading engineer.